AT&T announces two new music applications, expands Napster mobile coverage

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AT&T has announced two new music applications; mSpot’s Make-Ur-Tones and mSpot Remix. Likewise, AT&T also announced its plan of expanding the Napster Mobile service it gives under the AT&T network. All three music applications provide mobile music lovers the freedom to choose the music they want to listen to and use in their AT&T mobile phones.

Available for a monthly subscription of $6.99 for three ringtones, the mSpot Make-UR-Tones allows customers to search for music tracks from the AT&T Media Mall, cut a 30-second part of the song using the a built-in editor, preview the output and then download the personalized ringtone to their phone. Unfortunately, mSpot Make-UR-Tones will only work with the Samsung SYNC, Samsung A737, Samsung A747 and the Motorola V3xx.

AT&T also announced the mSpot Remix, an application that allows users to access music from their PC and listen to the song from their mobile phone while it downloads the song in the background. After listening to a song or after downloading the song (whichever comes first), users can now save it into their phone’s memory storage.

In addition to these two music applications, AT&T has also announced plans to expand the reach of the Napster Mobile service to around 12 million users starting this summer. Likewise, AT&T has included an added value to customers’ purchases by allowing them to receive a copy of the songs they downloaded from Napster, aside from the copies they uploaded into their mobile phone.

With these new music applications, AT&T has positioned itself as having the most number of choices for mobile music than any other U.S. carriers. Aside from Napster mobile, AT&T also delivers DRM-free music from eMusic, the online music store that would not accept a report saying that Amazon is now the number 2 online music store.

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It’s not often Microsoft and Google are on the same seemingly-losing side of a debate, but things just aren’t looking good for the White Space Coalition, the open-airwaves internet access project backed by the two giants, as well as Dell, HP, Intel, and Philips. The once-promising tech was to transmit broadband-speed data in the “white space” between existing television signals, but pretty much failed its initial FCC testing by causing static on nearby channels and hasn’t really been heard from since. Well, that’s not enough for the feisty suits at the National Association of Broadcasters, which is taking out a series of ads in a campaign against the system, saying that “while our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not.” This fight may or may not have legs depending on how the upcoming 700MHz auction goes, but one thing is clear — the offices of the NAB are clearly not served by Comcast.

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